Introduction

A lot of people who are driven to the point of insanity report hearing voices — voices commanding them to stalk, maim, or even kill.

Then there are people like you and me. We also hear voices that leave us at the brink of our sanity, only these voices are commanding us to zip up our jackets or eat enough roughage.

The voices we hear don't come from God but from someone much more powerful.

Our mothers.

The only difference between any other adult who's being driven nuts by her mother and me is that I just happened to have saved my mother's voice on the microcassettes from my answering machine.

In fact, I've been saving almost all my answering machine messages for well over a decade.

Recently, I released a CD of my mother's messages through my Website at sendamy. Judging by the flood of email I've been getting, I'm not alone in ... read full excerpt from Amy's Answering Machine ebook